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Dead need right to delete their data against AI, lawyer says

The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says

: Not everyone wants to be simulated after they're gone

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William H Webster, former director of FBI and CIA, dies aged 101

William H Webster, the former FBI and CIA director whose troubleshooting skills and integrity helped restore public confidence in those federal agencies, has died, his family announced on Friday. He was 101.

Webster led the FBI from 1978 to 1987 and the CIA from 1987 to 1991, the only person to guide the nation’s top law-enforcement agency and its primary intelligence-gathering organization.

By the time he came to Washington, at age 53, Webster had practiced law for nearly 20 years, had served a stint as a federal prosecutor and had spent almost nine years on the federal bench in his native St Louis. Those who opposed him in court or disagreed with his rulings acknowledged that his honesty was beyond question.

William H Webster, former director of FBI and CIA, dies aged 101

Appointed by Carter to head FBI in 1978, Webster helped improve the image of an agency tarnished by scandal

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A Plea From Gaza: You’re My Only Hope

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5783600

My name is Soliman — a young man and student from Gaza, carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life, I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times.
We once had a small farm — olive and citrus trees, and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops, but dreams.
That farm was our only source of income, and more than that, it was a place full of memories, of hope, and of the laughter that once made life a little easier.
But in a single moment, everything was gone.
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes.
We lost our source of living, our stability — and with it, a part of our souls.
Now, despite the pain, I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing, to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength, dignity, and sense of humanity.
I share these words with honesty and hope, hoping they reach a kind heart — someone who can help, or even simply share my story with others who might be able to.
If you’re able to support us in any way, here is the link to our GoFundMe campaign:
👉 gofund.me/da782c66
Every share, every kind word, every small donation could be a lifeline for us.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking a moment to read my story.

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Yemen’s Houthis say they launched 3 drone strikes inside Israel

The Yemeni Houthi group said Friday that it launched three drone attacks targeting the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv and “vital sites” in southern Israel, Anadolu reports.

Military spokesperson Yahya Saree described the attacks as “qualitative military operations” by the group’s air force.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250809-yemens-houthis-say-they-launched-3-drone-strikes-inside-israel/

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Instagram's new location feature has left users feeling 'sick'

Instagram’s new location-sharing update is raising privacy concerns, with users reporting their whereabouts were shared without their knowledge despite Meta saying the update is opt-in.
Experts warn that location-sharing features are linked to a higher risk of tech-based coercive control.
The controversy follows other recent privacy issues for Meta, including a lawsuit over the misuse of sensitive health data from a women’s health tracking app.

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Sir_Kevin

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Why are people giving any Meta app Location Permissions? ..or even installing that shit to begin with?

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ReversalHatchery

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nobody needs to install it nowadays, because it comes preinstalled on all phones. and lots of people just mindlessly allow every kind of permission

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TXL

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And all their friends and crushes use it.

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FlappyBubble

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Is it really preinstalled on all phones? Not on iphones and neither on my Samsung S22 or my Pixels.

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Infernal_pizza

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That's because they're both flagship phones, budget phones have a ton of bloatware installed on them (including cheaper Samsung phones)

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7toed

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Can confirm I had to remove "Meta App Manager" off my old S22+ as of ~6 months ago

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7toed

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Android is the devil when it comes to it. My S22+ certainly did have "Meta App Manager" and "Meta Package Installer" hidden as system services, which could only be removed using ADB.

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ReversalHatchery

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maybe flagship phones are different, but I don't think I ever had such a device in my hands. I regularly help people with affordable phones, and as far as I can tell each had them preinstalled

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ScoffingLizard

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Just got samsung phone and FB was preinstalled. You will probably be pissed the next time you get a phone.

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LabelBox

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It’s completely optional. Seems like they just ripped off Snap Maps from Snapchat. Nothing to write home about here. Some people don’t value privacy, it is there choice.

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Today’s humanoid robots look remarkable, but there’s a design flaw holding them back

The leading designers are all focused on a ‘brain-first’ approach that insists on controlling everything centrally rather than delegating it around their bodies.

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Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations

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Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations

“Is this the America we live in?” said one parent. “And it was this stupid, stupid technology that is just going through picking up random words and not looking at context.”

^{Sharon Lurye (Fortune)}

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Ok, I need to scream into the void. I have questions.

I made the switch! Well mostly, my main PC that I use for work (audio, music, etc) is still Windows for now while I figure out if I can do what I need with Linux. 3 days ago I threw Mint on my old laptop (which I don't use much for testing as it's still slow, even with Linux) and wanted to use my main laptop to test for switching my PC. Unfortunately it's a Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra, which apparently has issues with Linux hardware-wise. I got everything up and running (except for the webcam which was expected) and found Ubuntu Studio, which seems to basically be Ubuntu with auto-install of a suite of audio and video programs, and a low latency kernel (whatever that means. I'll get there to figure it out eventually).

I've learned a LOT. Pulling in Windows vst files through Wine and yabridge was a journey. Every time I fixed an issue and took a step forward, I encountered a new one haha. But, I got it working. I LOVED figuring out the problems, even if I wanted to pull my hair out. The terminal is...really neat.

Anyway it's important to me to try and learn the how/why as I go so here's my question. Librewolf. It installs via terminal, and I'm having issues on Ubuntu Studio. I tried it on Mint and it installed fine. Ubuntu studio however throws up this error: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 76F1A20FF987672F

I tried sudo apt-get install -f (which I think looks for missing dependencies and stuff?) but no go. Since both distros are Debian, I'm guessing the biggest difference between Mint and Ubuntu Studio is the kernel? I've been able to fix things with missing dependencies but I'm guessing the public key is something different?

ELI5, why does it work on Mint and not Ubuntu Studio?

Edit: Got it thanks to u/frongt I added the key and it's all good!

Execute the following commands in terminal

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys

where is your missing public key for repository, e.g. 8BAF9A6F.

Then update

sudo apt-get update

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anon5621

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I am not too much into Ubuntu studio but on what version it based of Ubuntu as alternative fast fix install flatpak version of librewolf

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Jack_Burton

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Just tried flatpack (first time for this). Librewolf launched, though the icon was a yellow 'w' and was running in terminal with something called brwap. I tried to find Librewolf in Discover which throws up a long error everytime I launched Discover, ending with the same public key issue. I may have done it wrong, but after trying to uninstall the flatpack I still get that error every time I launch Discover haha. Think I messed something up

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Public error related to of librewof of ur previous actions u need to remove deb repository remove in instruction provided in librewolf page .Yellow w it fine it works through xwayland

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tetris11

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Different distirbutrions subscribe to different "key servers" (is that the right term?) to validate that the packages they're getting have been signed by the right people, and not by Dick Dastardly and his crew. LibreWolf isn't your typical Linux package, but probably on the same trustworthy level as some of "extra" packages found in other repos. My guess would be Mint subscribes to the key server where the LibreWolf dev's key exists, and Ubuntu doesn't because Ubuntu has a very Ubuntu™ way of doing things (I'm being a snob here).

So I think if you really want to use LibreWolf, you will have to manually subscribe to the keyserver where the LibreWolf's dev key is, or manually import the key yourself to validate the package.

Anyway, welcome to the wacky races

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FauxLiving

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You understand what is happening conceptually but some of the details are not exactly correct.

The package manager verifies every package's cryptographic signature, which is usually a hash of the file contents which is then signed with the developer's private key, so that anyone with the developer's public key can decrypt the hash (which verifies that it comes from a source which controls the private key of the keypair) and check it against the hash of the files they downloaded to ensure they haven't been altered between the project and your PC.

What's happening is that OP is installing a package which is signed with a key that is not added as a trusted key in their keyring. So when it tries to check the cryptographic signature against its local hash it finds that none of the keys in the trusted keyring will decrypt the hash and so it doesn't trust the file and kicks out the error in the OP.

The command

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys <PUBKEY>

Tells apt to grab the public key with the ID from the keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com and add it as a trusted key on your keyring.

The reason that you use a key ID is that the actual public key is very large (2048 bits, most likely) and so it's easier on the system administrator to see key IDs and then retrieve the full public key from a keyserver if they need it than have the error log/terminal spammed with multiple screens full of random characters.

That being said, using apt-key to add trusted keys is deprecated due to a potential security issue. The key is trusted for code signed from any repo, so a compromised key could allow an attacker to replace Librewolf with a malicious package on another repo called Librewolf and, as long as the signatures match (because they somehow stole Librewolf's private key or tricked you install installing an incorrect id) the package manager will install it.

The new way (which is largely manual now, but people have already made scripts to do it more easily) is to manually download the key, store it somewhere and then add it to the configuration in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ so that the source list itself defines which keys are trusted for that source. This would limit the key to being trusted for that specific repo only and not for every repo (or every possible thing that uses public keys)

This has a more complete explanation, instructions on doing it manually and some links to helper scripts people have made to make the process just as simple as using apt-key: askubuntu.com/questions/128654…

What commands (exactly) should replace the deprecated apt-key?

Setting up keys for a local repository on a new ubuntu 20.10 virtual machine, I got a message that apt-key add was deprecated and I should read the apt-key(8) man page. The apt-key(8) man page is a

^{Ask Ubuntu}

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Jack_Burton

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This is really interesting thank you. It's starting to make sense a little more.

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tetris11

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Thanks for the extra context, though I'm not sure why Mint had that key by default in their keyserver and Ubuntu doesn't

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kutsyk_alexander

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Did you use this instruction? If so, i think you forgot this step

wget -O- https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/bgstack15:/aftermozilla/Debian_Unstable/Release.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/home_bgstack15_aftermozilla.gpg

LibreWolf Browser

A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

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Jack_Burton

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I avoid it because it said unstable. Just tried, same issue.

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Teppichbrand

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I used to install low latency kernel as well. Last time I just installed vanilla Mint. Audio was bad. Then I figured out I have to add myself to the audio group and voilà, works perfectly. No more kernel-hopping for me.

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frongt

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Google that string. Looks like it's the key for the wine repo, not related to what you're doing. Remove the offending repo, or add the key.

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Jack_Burton

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How can I add the key?

NVM got it. Librewolf installed! Thanks!

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frongt

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You should also share the solution for future readers.

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Jack_Burton

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Already made the edit. Thanks again!

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Getting6409

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I'm in a similar situation: I have to keep a windows box around for specific audio tools and interfaces. A nice thing I've discovered is Sunshine (lizardbyte) and Moonlight. Sunshine is the desktop streamer that runs on the windows box, Moonlight is the client you run on the linux laptop (or android or whatever) to connect to Sunshine. I find it to be a nice solution for keeping the windows box easily accessible from my main displays/kb/mouse which are always tethered to the linux laptop. Thia streaming setup feels a lot more natural than RDP, and it's especially useful if you need to handle any video on the windows box. The main use case is video games, so there is that too.

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Jack_Burton

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Interesting, I'll look into that. It's like having a window running Windows? I'm hoping to completely dump Windows so I'm focused on learning Bitwig and figuring out Wine/Proton for anything I need Windows programs for like vsts and games

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hinterlufer

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Yeah kind of, but you need to have an actual machine running windows somewhere (preferably within the same network)

A VM would be more like "a window running windows"

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Gerudo

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It's geared at streaming your gaming session from a remote pc. Extremely low latency and works like a dream. I use it to stream my gaming pc to my xbox, but it will stream anything your pc does.

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Getting6409

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You could call it that. The most direct analogy is RDP, or even a kvm. It's a remote session to another machine, but under the hood it's using the fast and efficient video codecs, h264 or hevc. It's also good about piping audio from the remote machine to whatever you're using locally.

I'm also hoping to dump windows. I spent a week trying to get my usb interface working with guitar rig running in wine bottles. I was getting nowhere with it just fell back to using the windows box remotely.

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Samsy

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Woof, hard flashback to my first steps on Linux. Idk, these problems leave, when you try to buy better supported Linux hardware. Thinkpads and XPS (second hand / refurbed) are near 100% supported (maybe some have a quirky nvidia gpu which needs some extra steps) and really cheap these days. I would sell stupid Samsung / Chromebook stuff and buy Dell/Lenovo for less headache.

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Jack_Burton

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Haha yeah I got the Samsung 50% off about a month before I started taking leaving big tech seriously. Honestly, I really like that there are issues, workarounds, and it generally doesn't play nice. I learn best by doing and I've already learned a tonne just by having to run terminal commands to get things going, even things like touchpad issues, audio, power light staying on, etc. My next computer I'll focus on Linux hardware priorities (I think AMD plays well) but for now, fixing is how I'm learning.

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yesman

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I LOVED figuring out the problems, even if I wanted to pull my hair out.

I recently dumped M$, and in my decision I expected the learning curve to be a downside, but what I've experienced is joy and accomplishment in learning new things.

I'd go further to say that learning Windows teaches you about Windows but learning Linux teaches you about computers.

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Jack_Burton

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Absolutely! I'm finding that I'm really focused on "why and how" as I learn. I started just copy pasting but it's a lot more fun learning the actual commands.

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oeuf

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If you're struggling with your windows plugins I highly recommend checking out kxstudio for native Linux ones. There are excellent plugins for audio production on linux. I also recommend using Ardour as your DAW.

KXStudio : Repositories : Applications

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Muehe

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a low latency kernel (whatever that means. I’ll get there to figure it out eventually)

It's a kernel with real-time process scheduling enabled by default.

In normal kernels a process can theoretically block all other processes from running for up to several seconds, which is obviously bad for time sensitive things like audio recordings or controlling a CNC-machine for example.

In real-time scheduling all processes are guaranteed time slices in more regular intervals. This is good for time sensitive things like audio recording, but since there is some scheduling overhead it's bad for single resource intensive processes or process trees like video games.

You can read more about the difference between a real time and low latency kernel here: help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubun…

UbuntuStudio/RealTimeKernel - Community Help Wiki

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Jack_Burton

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Beauty, that's what I figured. On Windows I had to download asio4all to eliminate latency. Good to know about the kernel.

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haloduder

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As an aside, stick with the defaults unless you have a specific reason to switch.

Don't overcomplicate things, or at least try to realize when you're doing it.

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mvirts

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Since 6.12 the Preempt rt patcheshave become canon.

As for older kernels, there's a thread Here but idk what the current situation is

Ubuntu Studio and Low Latency in the Generic Kernel

Hi there! First of all, I just wanted to say how super happy I am about having lowlatency built-in to the Generic kernel and that we are going to be removing the lowlatency kernel from future kernel releases.

^{Ubuntu Community Hub}

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0_o7

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Ok, I need to scream into the void.

We've got just the thing for you.

voidlinux.org

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Vulnerable Republicans Are Claiming They Love Medicaid After Voting to Gut It

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Last month, Republicans passed a reconciliation bill that is expected to kick millions of Americans off of Medicaid and other forms of health insurance. The legislation includes over $800 million in cuts to Medicaid spending over the next 10 years, the largest in the program’s history. Now, as Republicans gear up for next year’s midterm elections, vulnerable lawmakers who supported the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” are attempting to recast themselves as protectors of the health care program they sent to the wood chipper.
Archive: archive.is/CgOwC

Vulnerable Republicans Try to Praise Medicaid After Voting for Cuts

Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Tom Kean Jr., and Gabe Evans introduced a resolution supporting Medicaid after voting for cuts to the program.

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"Politicians are lying shitbags! More at 11, please tune in for this original scoop!"

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The most damning part of this whole affair, even if it's not entirely "new," is just how many elected officials claimed they didn't know X, Y, and Z were in the bill before they voted for it. How could they be qualified to represent their constituents if they're not even doing the bare minimum of reading the things they're voting for? That should immediately disqualify them from holding office.

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C level

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I don't like this meme format, it always bothers me to see the T-Rex cry for being silly.

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Right? 😂

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Faceva credere di essere Mengoni: sgamato!

Come di consueto mi trattengo un po’ su Facebook per postare, commentare, ecc.

Decido improvvisamente di seguire qualche cantante famoso come Povia, Cocciante, Marco Mengoni e altri. Chiaramente fin qui nulla di strano.

Quando seguite questi cantanti su messanger si può stabilire un contatto col cantante ed io l’ho fatto. Convinta che fosse veramente Marco Mengoni gli ho dato il mio numero di telefono per continuare le nostre conversazioni su telegram, fino a quando una sera Marco ha detto di amarmi e mi ha chiesto dei soldi. Chiaramente non poteva essere ed ho iniziato ad insospettirmi fino a quando il mio sguardo è caduto sul numero di telefono di Marco.

E’ stato allora che ho capito che non era il vero Marco Mengoni, ma un impostore che si stava spacciando per lui, perchè aveva un numero di telefono che iniziava con + 234. Come poteva essere? Così senza che lo sapesse ho inserito il prefisso nel motore di ricerca Google ed ho scoperto che era

Faceva credere di essere Mengoni: sgamato! - sgamiamoli

Come di consueto mi trattengo un po’ su Facebook per postare, commentare, ecc. Decido improvvisamente di seguire qualche cantante famoso come Povia, Cocciante, Marco Mengoni e altri. Chiaramente fin qui nulla di strano.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via United States | News & Politics

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This is called "capital flight"

It usually only happens to poor countries, and it never ends well.

^{Noah Smith (Noahpinion)}

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triplenadir

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anyone got a link to the full article? archive.is also has the paywalled version

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looks like a hard paywall

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Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland

A pro-Palestine student activist group at University of Maryland (UMD) has won a $100,000 settlement from the university in a lawsuit stemming from administrators’ blocking of students’ vigil for Gaza last year.

Maryland’s Board of Public Works approved the settlement on Wednesday, marking a win for student pro-Palestine advocates after a judge issued a preliminary injunction in their favor last year.

According to Palestine Legal, a group representing the students, this is the largest financial penalty ever levied on a university for violating the free speech rights of students advocating for Palestinian rights.

Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland

Palestine Legal says it’s the largest penalty a university has had to pay for violating pro-Palestine students’ rights.

^{Sharon Zhang (Truthout)}

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Geopolitics : News and discussion

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The Pyrrhic Tariff War

How the West is Sacrificing its Future for Ideology

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StinkyFingerItchyBum

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Was. Now they are the pariah.

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Nah, they still have EU bent over a barrel as evidenced by EU simply accepting escalating tariffs without any retaliation. Likewise, Canada made some noises initially, but then also knuckled under. Western governments make a lot of bold statements for the rubes, but when push comes to shove they know who their daddy is.

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how to avoid LLM suctioning my data

I hate reddit because it sells my data to AI and they killed the apps and Steve is a pigboy:
reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/com…

But if I post on Lemmy - AI just suctions my data for free ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I hate that.

so how do we handle this?
I dont want to feed AI, what can I do?

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Trump, Putin to meet in Alaska on Aug. 15 for peace talks. “The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that “further details will follow.”

Putin proposed halting war in exchange for Ukraine’s eastern regions in meeting with Witkoff, WSJ reports. Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a sweeping proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine during a meeting with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, offering a halt in hostilities in exchange for Ukraine’s eastern regions, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Aug. 8, citing European and Ukrainian officials.

Peace talks will include ‘some swapping of territories,’ Trump says ahead of proposed meeting with Putin. U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Aug. 8 that a potential peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv would likely include “some swapping of territories,” as Trump prepares to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week.

US, Russia discuss deal to cement Moscow’s hold on occupied Ukrainian territories, Bloomberg reports. The proposed deal is aimed at freezing the conflict and laying the groundwork for a ceasefire and technical negotiations toward a final peace settlement, the news agency reported.

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Watchdog claims Russian troops enter Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, military says attack repelled. “They (Russian troops) are now regrouping for further attempts, but remain positioned in Donetsk Oblast,” said Victor Tregubov, spokesperson of the Dnipro group of forces.

Ukrainian drones strike 23,000 targets in July, kill 5,000 Russian troops, military chief says. Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said first-person-view (FPV) drones and night bombers were responsible for most of the hits.

Ukraine kills 12 soldiers in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, intelligence source claims. According to the source, two explosions near the unit’s checkpoint killed at least 12 Russian soldiers and injured dozens more. Russian military equipment was also destroyed, they added.

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EU has CLOUD act analogue too

Hi everyone. Probably not everyone knows but EU has CLOUD Act analogue too - it has a name "e-evidence - cross border access". so this is a description of framework from the official site - "create a European Production Order: this will allow a judicial authority in one Member State to obtain electronic evidence (such as emails, text or messages in apps, as well as information to identify a perpetrator as a first step) directly from a service provider or its legal representative in another Member State, which will be obliged to respond within 10 days, and within 8 hours in cases of emergency (compared to up to 120 days for the existing European Investigation Order or an average of 10 months for a Mutual Legal Assistance procedure);"

basically it means that the national authorities of the country where companies are registered no longer has juducial control over law protection of their companies - so for example if extreme right government of Poland will be dissappointed with your post on Mastodon about Pegasus surveillance used by them against political journalists by new Framework they will issue juicial order to obtain your mastodon account details, ip, email etc and will electronically request your mastodon provider (which reside for example in Belgium) to give this data to them withis 8 hours or 10 days (without possibility to make appelation) basically overriding national courts of country of registration of the provider.

Do you believe that EU goverment respect right to privacy and national souvereginity as a fundamental right?

#privacy

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Do you believe that EU goverment respect right to privacy and national souvereginity as a fundamental right?

I think the incumbents in EU commission are very scared as politicians from outside the traditional political families are getting popular votes. And instead of looking into to mirror as to why that is happening, they blame "the internet" and go authoritarian.

Thus creating the machinery for mass surveillance and supression.

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cookie019

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I agree. The real problem is that most people are not aware of this. I see a lot of nationalist propaganda online that advocates for using "European private services". Although, for now, some European countries (mostly Germany) have excellent services for preserving privacy (email, mastodon instances, lemmy instances, etc), the EU's privacy legislation is deteriorating, and the issue of the lack of "confidential" services located outside the EU is becoming important. I haven't found a single popular confidential email provider with servers outside the EU. As for those who might mention Iceland, it's worth noting that they have clear plans to join the EU in the near future.

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JumpyWombat

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Do you believe that EU goverment respect right to privacy and national souvereginity as a fundamental right?

National sovereignty is in contrast with the concept of an EU Union. The EU had been constantly eliminating barriers and differences for the past few decades, so it's not surprising that also law enforcement will follow the same evolution.

Many far right ultra nationalists don't like that transfer of powers, but they are the same people who swing from pro-Putin to pro-Trump and appreciate Hitler and Mussolini.

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National sovereignty is in contrast with the concept of an EU Union. The EU had been constantly eliminating barriers and differences for the past few decades

It was supposed to be a trade union. But like any group in power, they want more and more?

It's weird that things related to trade, like unifying the train network, isn't happening. But they do spend a lot of time and effort meddling with people's private life.

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JumpyWombat

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It was supposed to be a trade union. But like any group in power, they want more and more?

It was supposed to be an alliance to prevent further wars in Europe and it's becoming a political union. What's wrong with that?

It’s weird that things related to trade, like unifying the train network, isn’t happening.

You missed something. Check this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Eu… or this transport.ec.europa.eu/transpo…

But they do spend a lot of time and effort meddling with people’s private life.

Historically cross-border investigations have been difficult making it easier to get away with several crimes, especially fiscal and financial frauds. Improving the exchange of information is trying to solve that.

Is it possible that the Polish government investigates your anti-government post on a Belgian server? Maybe... although you are probably overestimating how much a government cares about criticism on Internet. Consider though that EU rules also aim to guarantee civil liberties against authoritarian governments. Things are not perfect (see Hungarian crackdown on lgbt), but we are getting there (see Italy under investigation for spying on journalists).

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It was supposed to be an alliance to prevent further wars in Europe

That's weird, as the precursors "European coal and steel community", "european economic community" are clearly economic alliances.

You missed something.

So did you (1)

Historically cross-border investigations

The answer should not be to bypass judicial prudence. Yet that's what they've chosen.

And that's but one example. The insistence of the unelected EU commission to again and again put chatcontrol for a vote, despite it being unpopular, is another example.

The CRA act is another: basically killing independen softwarw development.

although you are probably overestimating

I think you probably grew up in western EU? Those of us that did live under a autoritarian regime, in my case DDR, know the lenghts they will go to to supress people who's thoughts they deem bad.

One of the things that's most difficult to communicate is this: all the freedom surpressing tools that are being build today, which you believe will be used solely against "the bad people", will be used against you. For your own good.

What the EU needs is more direct democracy, not the charade that is parliament/commission, but sadly it's going in the opposite direction.

Track gauge by country in Europe

“Track gauge” is the perpendicular distance between the inner faces of the two rails of a railway. Just like with many other things, it would have been better to have a single

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the precursors “European coal and steel community”, “european economic community” are clearly economic alliances.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuman_…

unelected EU commission

The EU Commission is the executive branch and it's approved by the parliament. You should check the basics.

all the freedom surpressing tools that are being build today, which you believe will be used solely against “the bad people”, will be used against you.

You basically say that we should stop producing knives because someone could use them against people.

In this specific case, I don't see why in a union the location of a person or a company should have any influence on how the law operates. By the way, these laws also work the other way around in favor of the weaks. Imagine if you wanted to sue a guy protected by his government that made it difficult to collect proofs.

What the EU needs is more direct democracy, not the charade that is parliament/commission, but sadly it’s going in the opposite direction.

It's a nice idea on paper, but I doubt that it would work. The truth is that the vast majority of people fail to understand the basic functioning of the institutions, not to mention how they easily fall for misinformation and conspirationism due to a lack of critical sense and knowledge. It's a different discussion though.

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It's a nice idea on paper, but I doubt that it would work. The truth is that the vast majority of people fail to understand the basic functioning of the institutions

People who dislike democracy tend to like the EU indeed. I don't think it's a different discussion. I think it's the philosophical core of this issue.

I feel like you and I are in completely different camps in that regard, as you feel the basis of society should be hierarchical and control. This explains why some appreciate less judiciary oversight on government, less freedom for individuals.

Others think the basis of society should be cooperation, appreciation of individuals, freedom both for and from others.

For the people who prefer domination and control I can only advise empathy. It won't be you who controls others. So try to feel what it's like to not be regarded as a person that deserves freedom and agency. People are more than an entry in a database.

The EU Commission is the executive branch and it's approved by the parliament. You should check the basics.

Exactly, it should be the executive branch! It makes no sense that the executive branch proposes laws! And it makes no sense that a law-making part of government is not up for election. This is one of the least democratic institutes that dares to call itself a democracy.

Most legislation needs to be proposed by the European Commission and approved by the Council of the European Union and European Parliament to become law (1)
You basically say that we should stop producing knives because someone could use them against people.

Where the analogy doesn't work is that knives already exist. A better analogy would be: don't build novel weapons of mass destruction that are pointed at your own populace.

why in a union the location of a person or a company should have any influence on how the law operates.

Brings us back to our core philosophical difference: cooperation vs subjugation. A union, to me, is cooperative with everyone's boundaries respected. A union to you is top down dictating who does what.

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People who dislike democracy tend to like the EU indeed.

That's your opinion and it's not based on facts.

you feel the basis of society should be hierarchical and control

No I don't.

It makes no sense that the executive branch proposes laws

I'm afraid that you don't understand how the executive power works.

And it makes no sense that they’re not up for election

You also do not understand the difference between a parliament and a government.

A union, to me, is cooperative with everyone’s boundaries respected. A union to you is top down dictating who does what.

You shouldn't assume what I think, especially when you are wrong.

What you propose is an alliance where countries maintain their differences, essentially the dissolution of the EU and the return to the Europe of the early 1900. Interestingly that's the same thing that Putin and Trump hope for. You are free to think it's better, but I'm not sure you fully understand what that really means.

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You shouldn't assume what I think, especially when you are wrong.

If it walk like a duck, and quacks like a duck. Perhaps you should engage in some soul seeking 🙁

What you propose is an alliance where countries maintain their differences, essentially the dissolution of the EU and the return to the Europe

Again, there's more ways to interact with others than (a) everyone is dictated top down vs (b) dog eat dog.

What I propose is voluntary democratic cooperation. An improvement upon the current structure with more respect for everyone.

"In Russia they're doing it too" is to me insufficient motivation to lessen our democratic basis and individual freedoms.

I'm afraid that you don't understand how the executive power works.

How it should work is a legislative branch to propose laws, a parliament to vote on it, an executive to implement it. The bastardization of the process by the EU is that the executive initiates legislation, and isn't directly elected.

That's why they can repeatedly propose the same unpopular law, without any fear of losing power.

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What I propose is voluntary democratic cooperation. That’s all.

I propose you to read less anti-EU propaganda. All the initiatives in the EU are made in agreement with the elected EU parliament and are supported by the member states. You should also check how the right of veto works, all the problems for the lack of authority of the EU (contrary to what you say), and what's the legislative procedure, because you don't seem to be fully aware of it.

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What you propose is an alliance where countries maintain their differences, essentially the dissolution of the EU and the return to the Europe of the early 1900.

to the 1900? what? do you think that currently the EU is one big country with no major differences?

the EU consists of several different communities, with different cultures and different thinking. I think each country should be able to keep its healthy dose of sovereignty. I'm not saying what we have today is ideal, but turning everything to be more authoritarian is not going to make anything better.

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the EU consists of several different communities, with different cultures and different thinking.

Where does this come from? An ultra conservative tabloid?

Although there is still a strong push towards national interests due to some countries' myopia, the EU members are largely aligned with common rules on every aspect of the social life, the EU laws comes before members' laws like in a federation, and there are common investments including the cohesion funds (did you ever hear of those?).

I think each country should be able to keep its healthy dose of sovereignty.

Basically what the ECR and the Patriots say, which is amusing because they are the authoritarian ones, including some big fan of Putin, MAGA, and Hitler. When you think about it, it's not surprising that an "healthy dose of sovereignty" goes side by side with far-right ideas.

You may be right if you talk about initiatives to contrast cryptography (which failed multiple times), but in general the EU has always had a centrist politics thanks to the fact that groups like ECR and Patriots never managed to get the power. In the latest years, the far right is gaining traction with victories in some countries and I dare to say that it's a mix of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and propaganda aiming to push precisely those ideas of an "healthy dose of sovereignty" to weaken what is becoming a political block that could eventually compete with the USA, China, and that could stop the imperialism of Russia. Having some of those far right parties strongly connected to MAGA and Putin, is an interesting "coincidence".

Check your sources because you have misunderstood lots of things. Unless, of course, you actually want the Europe of 1900.

far-right political group of the European Parliament

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Where does this come from? An ultra conservative tabloid?

umm, no, I haven't read it anywhere. It's just how it is. why do you think this is not the case?

are you immediately imagining me as a russian tankie?

Basically what the ECR and the Patriots say, which is amusing because they are the authoritarian ones, including some big fan of Putin, MAGA, and Hitler. When you think about it, it's not surprising that an "healthy dose of sovereignty" goes side by side with far-right ideas.

well their dose is not healthy

what is becoming a political block that could eventually compete with the USA, China, and that could stop the imperialism of Russia.

as I see this would either need voluntary high cooperation of most countries, which would be a good thing (but not in the sense of imposing my country's laws on your country because your country hosts servers of interest), but something very hard to achieve because that would need to be maintained for multiple political parties when they are elected.
or a united states of europe that would basically replace each country's political system with a top-down system as the other user said, where there are no local elections for the ruling party anymore, or much less meaningful, but only an EU-wide election. which I'm not sure if it's bad, it's certainly a lot different. but it's not something I like that after that, moving to another EU country is not an option if what you want is to leave a bad legal regime.

you know, maybe I have these main problems with the eu cloud act:
- 10 days is way too little time for appeal, especially when there's a high volume of requests (a single country could overload their capacity)
- you won't get to know if a country has held the gun to your email or other provider to hand over your data. yes this is the case already, but this change makes it even worse.
- if a country bans encryption, does that mean my online service providers have to ban me from the encrypted functions?

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I haven’t read it anywhere. It’s just how it is. why do you think this is not the case?

So you are saying that you have first hand information to state that "the EU consists of several different communities, with different cultures and different thinking". Who are you? A sociologist who studied the EU for the past two decades?

I'm asking because it's completely in contrast with my first hand experience. I lived and worked in a few countries besides my original one and I found that the actual differences are more limited to what people eat for breakfast, what stereotypes they have for other countries, and the quality of the services one gets.

Basically what the ECR and the Patriots say
well their dose is not healthy

So where do you stand? With Farage cherry picking what you like of the Union?

as I see this would either need voluntary high cooperation of most countries, which would be a good thing (but not in the sense of imposing my country’s laws on your country because your country hosts servers of interest)

The cornerstone of the EU is the free market that means having a company from Spain able to do business in Germany. To achieve that, it is essential to have common rules and common standards just like it's essential to eliminate barriers. You can't have your cake and eat it too. The UK tried, and now they are out.

or a united states of europe that would basically replace each country’s political system with a top-down system as the other user said, where there are no local elections for the ruling party anymore, or much less meaningful

Maybe you didn't notice, but the European elections are already much more important than the local elections since the internal political economy is largely controlled by the EU. Your government can (for now) play around civil rights, manage pocket money, but cannot go out of the European boundaries that are becoming tighter and tighter every year.

10 days is way too little time for appeal, especially when there’s a high volume of requests (a single country could overload their capacity)

You are attacking a law that removes national barriers because your slightly-fascist country may abuse of that. Fix the fascism instead.

if a country bans encryption

It won't happen, but even if it does, you run your own.

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It was supposed to be an alliance to prevent further wars in Europe and it’s becoming a political union. What’s wrong with that?

for that purpose the NATO was created, not EU - it was trade union as the previous commentator said.

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It was supposed to be an alliance to prevent further wars in Europe and it’s becoming a political union. What’s wrong with that?
for that purpose the NATO was created, not EU - it was trade union as the previous commentator said.

Nope. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European…

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About if it is possible that goverment is interested - I don't know if you're Polish or familiar with the situation in Poland, but currently, a trial is underway in Poland, initiated by the pseudo-liberal opposition, regarding the illegal surveillance of journalists and independent political candidates in the 2019 elections using Pegasus. This surveillance was approved by national Polish courts. If a framework had existed at that time, they might have been able to gather much more compromising evidence on political opponents much faster.

Regarding your opinion that the government doesn't crack down on criticism on the internet, it's worth noting that the Polish Minister of Justice still insists on the maximum criminal punishment for two women who showed a depiction of the Virgin Mary in rainbow colors, as he claims it's an insult to religion. Since the ruling ultra-right party in Poland is a clearly clerical party with strong ties to Catholicism and has repeatedly used Catholic themes in their speeches, for them, it's evidently a priority to eradicate dissent in the country. The Minister of Justice's actions clearly confirm this.

I also use the term 'government' in relation to judicial investigations deliberately, as Poland has been subject to EU sanctions due to the government's force on the judicial system

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I've read about what's happening in Poland and similar issues exist also in Hungary and Italy where (what a coincidence) far right governments are in charge with their ultra conservative and authoritarian agenda.

However, I don't see why the EU should not go ahead with the program.

If the Poles (or the Hungarians, the Italians,...) elect a fascist government to rule on them, the problem is with the people, not the EU. I completely understand that you may be against that government, but most of the people around you chose it. They may be fools or fascist. Either way you may be in the wrong place. EU comes with the freedom of movement: use it.

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people around you choose them

The ancient Romans did not like Christians and therefore one of their favorite entertainments was to gather in amphitheaters and watch as defenseless Christians were thrown into a cage with tigers and torn apart. People received positive emotions, it united the spirit of the nation, and children also had fun. Another example is that after a shipwreck, people on a boat wandered in the ocean for several days and were starving, having no food, they decided that it was better to die alone than to die together and ate a young boy. Then they were rescued. These are real examples of how your utilitarian philosophy is disadvantaged and its shortcomings.

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JumpyWombat

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These are real examples of how your utilitarian philosophy is disadvantaged and its shortcomings.

It's 2025. Not only we are no more butchering minorities for fun, but any European is literally one ticket away to move to another country and start a new life. It's your choice to stay.

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MonkderVierte

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Are you saying that people against EU or that transfer of power are all far right?

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traceur201

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The problem is that this rule gives a member's judges direct power over another member's courts and there's no clear recourse against members that use this power to violate human rights in ways the member's citizens would normally be protected from

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JumpyWombat

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Do you realise that violations of human rights are in contrast with EU laws, right?

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Narri N. (they/them)

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Thankfully our country just joined NATO too, so the next step would be a useless war in Europe, with trying to attack Russia in the winter and starting a land war in Asia. I love living through 4 different once-in-a-lifetime economic recessions only to witness another rise in authoritarian far-right movements based on religious bigotry, all thanks to global geopolitical actions driven by capitalistic greed! ENDLESS GROWTH FOREVER, HUH

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Matt

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I'm ready to see ~10 clouds in the sky that look like mushrooms per day.

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Bug report: Dim read posts, gets enabled whenever the posts layout is changed.

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protonmail blocks account creation through tor

so now proton completely blocking account creation through their onion adress? I have standard protection, javascript enabled. Time to swith for those who use this service as they are ditching tor and switzerland?

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stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

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Change your route, people using tor with the same exit as you are doing too many username checks.

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cookie019

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As a said inmyp previous comment onion site was used so they dont have access to info and ip of my exit node, and,anywaty, I have tried to change circuit and access again but without success.

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francois

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While on dread recently I stumbled across this old post regarding issues with their onion adresses encryp.ch/blog/disturbing-fact…

When a user makes a new account with Protonmail on TOR they are re-directed from Protonmail’s “.onion” to “.com” address. This breaks your secure encrypted connection to their onion address, enabling your identification. There are absolutely no technical reasons for this feature. In fact, the only other websites that operate like this are suspected NSA/CIA Honeypots.

Disturbing facts about ProtonMail

Some disturbing facts and my personal experience with Proton AG

^encryp.ch

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cookie019

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Yes, I knew this info, there is a lot of strange things with company

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ScoffingLizard

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Goddamn. We live in a nightmare. There is someone fucking us all every goddamn second of the day.

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When you've lost too many games and they give you a "pity" match that you can easily win

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StrixUralensis

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Splatoon 3 matchmaking is terrible.

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Dis32

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Never played but I can imagine true

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theywilleatthestars

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At least you're not the person who's being used as a pity match

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Dis32

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Oh gosh imagine that 😭

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theparadox

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Is it not possible some of those many losses were just that?

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lorty

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There are games where the pity matches are against bots

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maybe not

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Nah.

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How Digital Press Releases Are Changing Brand Visibility in 2025

In today’s fast-moving online world, traditional media coverage is no longer enough to get your brand noticed. Digital press releases have evolved into powerful tools for building brand authority, improving SEO, and driving targeted traffic.

I recently came across Smart Press Hub, which offers streamlined press release writing and distribution services designed for modern businesses. What caught my attention is how they focus on blending traditional PR strategies with online marketing tactics to maximize exposure.

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How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content

Wikipedia editors are struggling with an influx of non-reviewed AI-generated content, but a new speedy deletion policy could help them wade through the muck.

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Anyone know how to actually get adobe lightroom for free on mac?😭🙏.

Anyone know how to get Adobe Lightroom for free on Mac? I'm new to this whole pirating apps and software things, so idk if this is a Obvious question. But, any help is appreciated. Thanks.

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Pro

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I want to start by listing adobe alternatives:

If they don't satisfy your use case here is what FreeMediaHeckYeah(FMHY) has about this:
- Mac section - Adobe

GitHub - KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives: A list of alternatives for Adobe software

A list of alternatives for Adobe software. Contribute to KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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Publishing Giants Escalate War on 'Shadow Libraries' With Broad Cloudflare Subpoena

Major academic publishers, including Elsevier and Springer Nature, are trying to unmask the operators of several shadow libraries including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library and Libgen. They're also targeting SLUM, a third-party uptime monitor for these unofficial libraries. A DMCA subpoena, issued by a D.C. federal court, requires Cloudflare to hand over identifying user data for possible legal action.

Publishing Giants Escalate War on 'Shadow Libraries' With Broad Cloudflare Subpoena * TorrentFreak

Major academic publishers are trying to unmask the operators of several “shadow library” and piracy domains.

^{Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)}

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

^{Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)}

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I love this. I hope big-tech/big-AI destroys big-copyright industry.

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squaresinger

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Nah, the only thing that could realistically happen is that copyright doesn't apply to AI hosted by large corporations. In no way will this destroy copyright claims against individuals or small companies.

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La pupilla di Van Gogh

Mary Rood “la pupilla di Van Gogh”

La pupilla di Van Gogh è un romance dallo sfondo storico e romanzato che immerge il lettore nel passato e nell’amore.

La protagonista di questo libro si fingerà un uomo per poter raggiungere i suoi sogni: diventare una pittrice.

La vita per le donne dell’Ottocento non era semplice, siamo nella metà del secolo e iniziano le prime silenziose rivendicazioni femminili che dovranno come sappiamo bene attendere un altro secolo perché prendano fuoco e si accendano in tutta Europa e America.

Eppure, Marie la nostra piccola ma sagace e forte protagonista lotta contro il destino dell’essere donna! Sotta una fascia strettissima nasconde il suo seno, mette calzoni, maglietta da uomo e un cappello sotto cui nasconde i suoi splendidi capelli.

Un affascinante storia alla scoperta di un mondo fatto di sogni e colori perché Marie riuscirà ad entrare nella cerchia di pittori vicino a Vincent Van Gogh e, quando lui scoprirà chi è, ne rimarrà soddisfatto e affascinato.

Sarà l’amore a completare la vita di Marie un amore mai preso in considerazione.

La meraviglia

Marie cresciuta senza padre perché morto, aveva imparato a fare i conti senza la sua presenza, ma uno strano incontro e una rivelazione inseguito la porteranno a dubitare sulla vera morte del padre. Forse egli è ancora vivo?

Un romance che non parla solo d’amore ma anche al cuore del lettore una scrittura piacevole, pulita e ben definita quella di Mary Rood che conquista tutti coloro che la leggono.

Una storia che sa far piangere ed emozionare.

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A "political blackmail" – the EU Parliament is pressing for new mandatory scanning of your private chats

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/45880359

The EU Parliament is pushing for an agreement on the child sexual abuse (CSAM) scanning bill, according to a leaked memo
According to the Council Legal Service, the proposal still violates fundamental human rights in its current form
The Danish version of the so-called Chat Control could be adopted as early as October 14, 2025

The nations welcoming and supporting the Danish proposal include Italy, Spain, and Hungary. France also said that "it could essentially support the proposal."
Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Luxembourg, and Romania currently remain undecided or in need of a review with their local parliament.

A "political blackmail" – the EU Parliament is pressing for new mandatory scanning of your private chats

According to the Council Legal Service, the Danish Chat Control proposal still violates human rights

^{Chiara Castro (TechRadar)}

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Azal

in reply to schizoidman • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

So... there's been a lot of Europeans looking at America and laughing at the stuff we're going through, smug that the US is getting this.

I'm not going to say as someone from the US we don't deserve the kicking, as a country the attitude of the US has had a bad problem of exceptionalism

But this right here should be the warning to Europe not to fall into the exceptionalism trap... your oligarchs are waiting to take everything over as well. And before I get called overreacting and unconnected, this is smelling quite of the "Patriot Act" we got.

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vacuumflower

in reply to Azal • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Their "oligarchs". LOL.

That's a different part of the world, it's not "oligarchs", it's just the government and politicians and a significant part of society in every European country. Eastern Europe might even be a bit better in this regard than Western, because of relatively recent historical memory.

You have to deserve "oligarchs" first. They didn't. You ask some granny in any European country, that granny will likely be in favor of full-on totalitarianism because they are a law-abiding society and there should be order, and people thinking they have natural rights are extremists.

You in your land of the weird joke about "freedumb" and "mass shooter rights" and "free hate speech", not understanding that the reason Europeans too joke about those is not them seeing your problems as they are, but because they (except for France and maybe some Scandinavian ones, and, eh, maybe Switzerland) unironically have problems with the ideas of freedom, equality, limits of mandate, right to rebellion and free speech. Half the European nations are monarchies or recent monarchies or recent fascist nations or ex-Commie nations.

You there joke about these treating it as a given that you have those rights, just some jerks abuse them, while Europeans joke because they don't have those rights and don't treat them as certain. There's nothing in UK's or even Germany's constitutional laws that admits that their citizens are free people with right to rebellion and to freedom of expression and association, even if someone in some other law writes that they are not.

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squaresinger

in reply to vacuumflower • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Mhm. Show me where in the US constitution it says that people have a right to rebellion.

And then please show me how this right to rebellion was applied when an actual rebellion occured.

And please also take into consideration any laws regarding treason or domestic terrorism.

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vacuumflower

in reply to squaresinger • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I said constitutional law, not the US constitution alone. Including declaration of independence and the surrounding history of discussion and all. Also not "says that people have", but recognizes it as an inherent right. Naturally if such a right exists, either no law can retract it or it would be meaningless.

And then please show me how this right to rebellion was applied when an actual rebellion occured.

I don't see how this is relevant. If you think it is, please explain how, explicitly and not implicitly.

(Also one would guess that slaveholders' right to rebellion is in significant doubt.)

And please also take into consideration any laws regarding treason or domestic terrorism.

Can't override constitutional and inherent rights. Also if you don't recognize the latter, it's too bad but your country's founding documents do as a basis. Basically the US constitution is toilet paper compared to unstated but mentioned in d.o.i. inherent rights, and any normal law is toilet paper compared to the US constitution.

And people who made that system were very well educated, also very practical, and explained very thoroughly why should any system of formal rules be possible to discard by force and why inherent rights not prone to degeneracy of any formal system driven by power should exist in philosophy. They were not XX and XXI centuries' idealists with overvalued ideas, or idiots dreaming of totalitarianism with those like them on top.

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squaresinger

in reply to vacuumflower • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

A law that doesn't apply is worthless.

Thinking that this somehow makes you or your anachronistic shithole of a country somewhat better is just plain delusional.

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vacuumflower

in reply to squaresinger • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

First, my anachronistic shithole of a country would be Russia.

Second, I said right, not law. Rights are more transcendent.

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squaresinger

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Rights don't exist. They are social conventions based in law. If you don't have a law or the law isn't enforced then you don't have a right.

Contrary to the name, there are no basic, inalienable human rights.

If your right is not supported by law, it does not exist.

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vacuumflower

in reply to squaresinger • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Rights don’t exist. They are social conventions based in law. If you don’t have a law or the law isn’t enforced then you don’t have a right.

That's your opinion which was a minority one in most of the world for most of history. Including such counterintuitive parts of it as China.

Contrary to the name, there are no basic, inalienable human rights.

Says who and based on what?

If your right is not supported by law, it does not exist.

And from which hairy arse would a law gain justification to determine someone's rights?

You are likely from one of the countries with English-derived legal system, where the precedent mechanism literally means that there are non-codified rights outside of the law, which the interpretation of the law has to approximate.

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squaresinger

in reply to vacuumflower • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Ok, lets put it in a way you might understand.

Let's say there's a basic human right to life, liberty and security (Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). That's quite basic.

You say you live in Russia. What good does that right do if your holy leader decides that he doesn't like what you posted online and sends you to the front in Ukraine or into a Gulag? Are you going to tell the military police that they can't touch you because you got rights?

Or lets make it more extreme: Say you live in Gaza. Are you going to tell the IDF that you got rights and thus their bombs and starvation just won't touch you?

You are likely from one of the countries with English-derived legal system, where the precedent mechanism literally means that there are non-codified rights outside of the law, which the interpretation of the law has to approximate.

Nope, I don't live in a country with English-derived legal system. A law is a law and judges interpret laws and not judges.

But even in a precedent-based system: Precedent means jack squat if the country's leadership doesn't care, as seen by the US.

I say it once again: Rights, laws, constitutions, all that are fine and dandy, and they are somewhat useful as long as the rule of law is mostly upheld. But:

If the leadership doesn't care about any of that, none of it matters.
If laws stop being enforced, they stop mattering. A law that isn't enforced is a suggestion, nothing more.
The same goes for constitutions and constitution-adjacent rules.
Rights are never anything more than suggestions. If they are supposed to have any meaning at all, they need to be codified into law.

Look up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. All 193 member countries of the UN ratified these. And yet there are articles in there that every single of these member countries violate. And having these "rights" means absolutely nothing in real-life terms if there's no mechanism to enforce them or get any benefit from it.

As a russian, how much do you e.g. enjoy the "right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association" (Article 20.1) and the "right to freedom of opinion and expression" (Article 19)? How much does "having these rights" help you if you go on the street and protest the war?

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vacuumflower

in reply to squaresinger • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

You say you live in Russia. What good does that right do if your holy leader decides that he doesn’t like what you posted online and sends you to the front in Ukraine or into a Gulag? Are you going to tell the military police that they can’t touch you because you got rights?

It'll just be a violated right. As that's treated always.

And you don't seem to understand that when "right" is treated as a thing separate from "law", arguments functional against "law" are not arguments functional against "right".

But even in a precedent-based system: Precedent means jack squat if the country’s leadership doesn’t care, as seen by the US.

Which doesn't change if it's a right or not. It's in the word. You are either in the right or in the wrong. If you're in the right, that doesn't guarantee you anything in the physical world. That's the point of such an entity.

And having these “rights” means absolutely nothing in real-life terms if there’s no mechanism to enforce them or get any benefit from it.

Wrong. Having a common frame of reference means a lot as a precondition for other things.

Say, having a program supporting some Kademlia-based protocol doesn't guarantee you to find other nodes supporting it, or to find a file or other resource you look for on them, or that someone won't block it. But it's better than if people can't agree on any protocol, but, suppose, MS and Apple can.

I think you shouldn't treat things you don't understand so arrogantly.

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squaresinger

in reply to vacuumflower • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Are you seriously applying your half-knowledge about programming to legal and philosophy?

You are so lost that you don't even know which topic we are talking about and still think that your arrogance has any basis in reality?

This is pidgeon chess, and you are a delusional pidgeon.

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vacuumflower

in reply to squaresinger • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

You may think whatever you want, you don't even need to have negative feelings about it.

But you've got no clue at all.

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squaresinger

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The Dunning-Kruger is strong with you.

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vacuumflower

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Yeah, and not with the guy who after saying something outta their ass went straight to insults.

Also why do you care? If you don't, why did you write this?

Also Dunning-Krueger is strong with everyone, that's what follows from that study.

If you mean that you have achieved something in some specific thing IRL and think I have no similar achievement, then (suppose you're right, most likely true) your achievement is in that specific thing only, and doesn't make you one bit more qualified to talk about anything else.

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I made an AI clone of my dead son - and let a journalist interview him

An interview between a US journalist and an AI clone of a teenager who was killed during shooting at his school has prompted criticism online.

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Justice Department Reaches Proposed Settlement with Greystar(Largest U.S. Landlord) to End Its Participation in Algorithmic Pricing Scheme

Justice Department Reaches Proposed Settlement with Greystar, the Largest U.S. Landlord, to End Its Participation in Algorithmic Pricing Scheme

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed settlement today to resolve the United States’ claims against Greystar Management Services LLC as part of its ongoing enforcement against algorithmic coordination and other anticompetitive …

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Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds

https://www.wired.com/story/securam-prologic-safe-lock-backdoor-exploits/

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Real estate agents say new seller disclosure laws are 'bottlenecking' Queensland's property market

In short:
Real estate agents say new seller disclosure laws are "bottlenecking" property sales due to lengthy turnaround times on required documentation.
The laws allow buyers to get their entire deposit back, and even claim compensation, if the vendor fails to offer up vital information.
Antonia Mercorella from the Real Estate Institute of Queensland says the laws have created "nervousness" about last-second contract cancellations.

ABC News

ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.

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How do you get lightroom for free on Mac?

Anyone know how to get adobe lightroom for free on mac ? any version would be fine, Thanks

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Macserialjunkie.
Good forum.

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Every time Apple forces me to update

I never turn off my machine, because every reboot forces an update and my peripherals are ancient.

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HiddenLayer555

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Isn't a drawing tablet just a fancy touchpad that works with a pen? What excuse do they have not to work with tablets past a certain age when they all use the same USB signalling standard mice and laptop touchpads have used since USB came out? (We all know the real reason, but I'm curious about what they pretend is the reason?)

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LillyPip

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Basically yeah. It’s a bit more complicated because of touch sensitivity, but I think I’ll need to learn driver programming soon, because I can’t afford a new model (e: and there’s nothing wrong with this one). Then I’ll be able to say for sure.

e: Intuos 4. And to be fair, it would have died under windows like 10 years ago, apparently.

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Jentu

in reply to LillyPip • 1 mese fa • •

I've had pretty good results using Connect My Tablet (app store link) to keep my Intuos 3 working on my M3 MBP.

‎Connect my tablet

‎Connect my tablet is doing exactly that: It connects your Wacom (TM) tablet to your Mac and restores at least its critical functionality to be creative with Photoshop (TM) and other programmes in Sequoia, Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina…

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LillyPip

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Ooh thanks!

e: have you updated past Ventura? I haven’t yet because I keep seeing posts where this tablet breaks at Ventura and later. If your 3 works in a more recent OSX, I’ll be able to breathe again, since my subscription services (Adobe, Sibelius) are complaining that I haven’t upgraded.

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Jentu

in reply to LillyPip • 1 mese fa • •

Yeah I’m currently on sequoia. Setting it up was pretty obnoxious from what I remember. I had to do it 3 times before my computer recognized it, but if you follow directions better than me (and if your specific tablet is supported), you should be good! If you have a friend on a newer version of Mac OS, see if you can test on their computer before upgrading your own since it might be very difficult to downgrade.

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doleo

in reply to HiddenLayer555 • 1 mese fa • •

Apple don’t feel the need to give excuses in situations like this. They know you’re an edge case and your complaints will be so much piss in the ocean.
Meanwhile else gets to talk about how great the new unreadable ui is. That skeleton at the bottom of the swimming pool meme could work here.

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Avid Amoeba

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Top kek

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somerandomperson

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You should've bought an Android tablet. Or heck, a touchscreen and the rest of your pc setup if you're fancy.

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LillyPip

in reply to somerandomperson • 1 mese fa • •

I don’t think that was a thing when I bought my Wacom, and this 12x8 tablet was the best you could get at the time for drawing and working with the Adobe suite in OSX, which was why I needed it.

I wish I could go back in time to when I could afford such things, but now I have to work with what I have. It’s still a very good tablet, it’s just getting outmoded for no good reason.

e: and I don’t mean something like an iPad, I mean a drawing tablet. This:

(Sorry for the horrible bloom)

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JamesBoeing737MAX

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How does nobody know what a Wacom tablet is? It's a periferal. Way cheaper than an Android tablet with stylus input.

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Lebanese protesters reject Hezbollah disarmament, defend ‘right to defense against foreign invasion’

Lebanese people have taken to the streets in the capital Beirut, voicing support for the country’s resistance movement Hezbollah and protesting mounting US- and Israeli-led pressure towards the group’s disarmament.

The rallies took place in the city’s Dhahiyeh neighborhood on Monday night, with participants shouting slogans in favor of “the right to defense in the face of foreign invasion.”

The attendants, who included droves of bike-riding supporters, waved Hezbollah’s flags, hailing the movement as a “major” contributor to the country’s defense.

Hezbollah was formed in 1982 with a mandate to defend the country in the face of Tel Aviv, which has been occupying the country’s Shebaa Farms on the common border with Syria since 1967, as well as the regime’s increasing regional expansionism drive.

Ever since, both the regime and the United States, its biggest supporter, have been mounting pressure on the country to have the movement disarmed.

The pressure has grown since 2023 after Hezbollah began staging solidarity operations in support of the Gaza Strip that had come under a genocidal Israeli war.

It soon evolved into heavily Washington-backed escalated Israeli aggression against the country that went on to claim the lives of more than 4,000 people.

Participants in the Monday rally also held up pictures of the movement’s current officials as well as those who have been martyred, including the leading figures assassinated throughout the escalation.

Hezbollah itself has vowed to continue defending the nation, as it successfully has throughout both the escalation and two full-scale Israeli wars in the 2000s. It has warned the Lebanese against succumbing to the pressure tactics that are aimed at serving the regime’s expansionist ambitions.

Lebanese protesters reject Hezbollah disarmament, defend ‘right to defense against foreign invasion’

Lebanese people rally in the capital Beirut, voicing support for Hezbollah and protesting mounting pressure towards its disarmament.

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Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court

Advocates say Supreme Court shows “hostility toward sound legal reasoning.”…

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What's going on with lemmy.org?

So, lemmy.org has been down for a while now, what's going on with that instance?

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How bad with Linux MSI is nowadays?

Browsing for some hardware to assemble a new system, nn AMD MSI motherboard caught my attention.

Checking the motherboard compatibility list got me really miffed, as updating BIOS is apparently impossible if not on Window$ and all supported CPUs with integrated graphics require later updates.

MSI was the first brand where I ran Linux, on a Megabook. It installed smoothly, ran flawlessly and even improved battery life and hardware output above what the competition achieved.

Looks like those times are past.

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I have an MSI laptop and MSI motherboard in a PC. Didn't have any specific compatibility issues, and I'm running Linux on both. You can update the BIOS with an usb stick straight from the BIOS. There's not really anything that 100% requires Windows.

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I've got a MSI MAG Tomahawk wifi which has had a lot of issues, but nothing related to Linux

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More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org

cross-posted from: piefed.social/post/1127664

Archive: archive.ph/2025.08.08-085040/4…

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More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org

A researcher has found that more than 130,000 conversations with AI chatbots including Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and others are discoverable on the Internet Archive, highlighting how peoples’ interactions with LLMs may be publicly archived if users are not careful with the sharing settings they may enable.
The news follows earlier findings that Google was indexing ChatGPT conversations that users had set to share, despite potentially not understanding that these chats were now viewable by anyone, and not just those they intended to share the chats with. OpenAI had also not taken steps to ensure these conversations could be indexed by Google.
“I obtained URLs for: Grok, Mistral, Qwen, Claude, and Copilot,” the researcher, who goes by the handle dead1nfluence, told 404 Media. They also found material related to ChatGPT, but said “OpenAI has had the ChatGPT[.]com/share links removed it seems.” Searching on the Internet Archive now for ChatGPT share links does not return any results, while Grok results, for example, are still available.
Dead1nfluence wrote a blog post about some of their findings on Sunday and shared the list of more than 130,000 archived LLM chat links with 404 Media. They also shared some of the contents of those chats that they had scraped. Dead1nfluence wrote that they found API keys and other exposed information that could be useful to a hacker.
playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2…
“While these providers do tell their users that the shared links are public to anyone, I think that most who have used this feature would not have expected that these links could be findable by anyone, and certainly not indexed and readily available for others to view,” dead1nfluence wrote in their blog post. “This could prove to be a very valuable data source for attackers and red teamers alike. With this, I can now search the dataset at any time for target companies to see if employees may have disclosed sensitive information by accident.”
404 Media verified some of dead1influence’s findings by discovering specific material they flagged in the dataset, then going to the still-public LLM link and checking the content.
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Do you know anything else about this? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.
Most of the companies whose AI tools are included in the dataset did not respond to a request for comment. Microsoft which owns Copilot acknowledged a request for comment but didn't provide a response in time for publication. A spokesperson for Anthrophic, which owns Claude, told 404 Media: “We give people control over sharing their Claude conversations publicly, and in keeping with our privacy principles, we do not share chat directories or sitemaps with search engines like Google. These shareable links are not guessable or discoverable unless people choose to publicize them themselves. When someone shares a conversation, they are making that content publicly accessible, and like other public web content, it may be archived by third-party services. In our review of the sample archived conversations shared with us, these were either manually requested to be indexed by a person with access to the link or submitted by independent archivist organizations who discovered the URLs after they were published elsewhere across the internet first.” 404 Media only shared a small sample of the Claude links with Anthrophic, not the entire list.
Fast Company first reported that Google was indexing some ChatGPT conversations on July 30. This was because of a sharing feature ChatGPT had that allowed users to send a link to a ChatGPT conversation to someone else. OpenAI disabled the sharing feature in response. OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey said in a previous statement sent to 404 Media: “This was a short-lived experiment to help people discover useful conversations. This feature required users to opt-in, first by picking a chat to share, then by clicking a checkbox for it to be shared with search engines.”
A researcher who requested anonymity gave 404 Media access to a dataset of nearly 100,000 ChatGPT conversations indexed on Google. 404 Media found those included the alleged texts of non-disclosure agreements, discussions of confidential contracts, and people trying to use ChatGPT for relationship issues.
Others also found that the Internet Archive contained archived LLM chats.

The ChatGPT confession files
Digital Digging investigation: how your AI conversation could end your career
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I really need to stop asking grok to rate my cock.

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@grok is this real ?

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BlueRingedOctopus

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is this real ?

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outhouseperilous

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Well, does its answer change?

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DominusOfMegadeus

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Don’t ever use the “share” button on anything. Just don’t. Not ever.

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share comment

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I mean, just assume everything you type online is public because, you know, it fucking is.

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I don't think that's what "sharing" refers to in this case. This is about users who did/didn't modify the settings of their chatbot to make their inputs and outputs publicly available via search. 404's previous reporting on ChatGPT suggested some users may not have understood what the sharing option actually meant in this context.

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Also never wash your car on a Tuesday

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Wash them on Wednesday, because the W stands for wash.

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Good thing I press “Reply” for this comment and not “Share”.

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'This Verdict Is a Wake-Up Call:' Jury Trial Finds Meta Breached State Privacy Law in Class Action Against Fertility App | Law.com

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'This Verdict Is a Wake-Up Call:' Jury Trial Finds Meta Breached State Privacy Law in Class Action Against Fertility App

A San Francisco federal court jury on Friday found Meta Platforms Inc. violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act in a landmark data privacy class action, which accused the Big Tech giant of illegally mining sensitive sexual and reproductive hea…

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Apple silicon vs Mediatek: parità ?

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Why is WebRTC enabled by default?

In about:config media.peerconnection.enabled is set to true by default which, by my understanding and that of tools like ipleak.net, means both VPN and home IP addresses will be exposed during useage on platforms like PeerTube.

Is this an oversight, is my understanding wrong, or is this intentional for some reason? Seems like the opposite of user expectation, particulary given the WebRTC settings option is hidden on librewolf.

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

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Spain ombudsman probes town's ban on Muslim celebrations

Jumilla has banned religious events in public sporting spaces, which is seen as a veiled attempt to prevent Muslim gatherings. Local authorities said the move was to "promote and preserve the traditional values."

Archived version: archive.is/newest/dw.com/en/sp…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Spain ombudsman probes town's ban on Muslim celebrations

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